Katie Couric’s new documentary series, America Inside Out With Katie Couric, is hoping to bridge the growing political divide in the United States by traveling across the country, interviewing people about divisive issues, and trying to find common ground. In honor of the new documentary, we asked Couric to list her…

Thanks in part to algorithm-driven feeds on sites like Facebook and Twitter, confirmation bias has become a problem on social media; users don’t need to look far to find articles that assert their preexisting beliefs, and unfortunately, that has contributed to increased division. With her new documentary series, …

Jay Z is producing an six-episode documentary that explores race in America for Nat Geo, according to Variety. The network revealed that it picked up the show, simply titled Race, at its upfront earlier this week, where it also announced it will debut an interview series from Katie Couric.

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It’s a measure of how little has changed regarding gun control in America that, 14 years after Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine, Stephanie Soechtig’s Under The Gun is yet another documentary about the issue inspired in large part by mass shootings. For Moore, the 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Colorado…

Billy Eichner has a rather singular view of the world. He lives for certain people—Meryl Streep, for example—and both loudly and lovingly disparages others. That dichotomy is perfectly clear in “Billy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” a new sketch scheduled to run on this Thursday’s episode of Billy On The Street. For the…